Someone alerted us on Twitter the other day to a petition he’s set up:
Place an escalating price on carbon.
Return all revenue raised to the public.
This is what we're lobbying for. It's a fair and effective way of tackling climate change.
News
May news
Here’s all the stuff discussed at the last monthly online UK meeting (21 May 2019): Starting or nurturing a group A brief training session by Gina, Judy and Louisa. Click here for the guidance notes and lots of useful links (Word doc in Google drive). What’s the difference between carbon fee and dividend and the…
The fast, fair and effective solution to climate change
That’s the title of Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s proposed European Citizens’ Initiative to the European Commission (pictured) that we’ve just learnt has been accepted. Their press release states: Today the European Commission decided to register 4 new European Citizens’ Initiatives: ‘The fast, fair and effective solution to climate change’, ‘Ending the aviation fuel tax exemption in…
Campaign
URGENT campaign – Brexit and climate change
We have twelve years to bring down greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. It is the biggest threat to our world and our species. We think the best way to do this is to tax fossil fuels at source and give the money back to citizens, in a dividend. And you can help create the…
Views
Politicians don’t listen
But then, we don’t really talk to them. Some of us do though. It’s very easy now with social media. You can even tweet animated gifs at your MP. There are plenty to choose from, but it might be better to DM them, or email them. If you really want to go overboard, you can…
Carbon Pricing: Be Careful What You Ask For
Why All Ways of Pricing Carbon Are Not The Same… Why do fossil fuels continue to provide most of our energy? The reason is simple. Fossil fuels are the cheapest energy. James Hansen, leading climate scientist and former director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Should we subsidise fossil fuels?
This is what I’m thinking of asking my MP after getting a reply to my email asking for her and her party’s position on carbon pricing that just lists a load of things her party, Labour, will do to tackle climate change, but doesn’t mention carbon pricing at all, and I’ve barely heard any mention…
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Events
Monthly online UK meeting
Every third Tuesday, 8pm Click on this link (at the time of the meeting) to join: https://zoom.us/j/466140846 Same link for every meeting. We meet to share our climate successes and frustrations, learn about the latest developments in climate progress, activism, science, climate, with speakers and training to help make us top lobbyists! Any questions, email…
Monthly online UK meeting
Every third Tuesday, 8pm Click on this link (at the time of the meeting) to join: https://zoom.us/j/466140846 Same link for every meeting. We meet to share our climate successes and frustrations, learn about the latest developments in climate progress, activism, science, climate, with speakers and training to help make us top lobbyists! Any questions, email…
Monthly online UK meeting
Every third Tuesday, 8pm Click on this link (at the time of the meeting) to join: https://zoom.us/j/466140846 Same link for every meeting. We meet to share our climate successes and frustrations, learn about the latest developments in climate progress, activism, science, climate, with speakers and training to help make us top lobbyists! Any questions, email…
